Visual Studio 16 2019¶
New in version 3.14.
Generates Visual Studio 16 (VS 2019) project files.
Project Types¶
Only Visual C++ and C# projects may be generated (and Fortran with Intel compiler integration). Other types of projects (JavaScript, Powershell, Python, etc.) are not supported.
Instance Selection¶
VS 2019 supports multiple installations on the same machine. The
CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE variable may be used to select one.
Platform Selection¶
The default target platform name (architecture) is that of the host
and is provided in the CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT variable.
The CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM variable may be set, perhaps
via the cmake(1) -A option, to specify a target platform
name (architecture). For example:
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARMcmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A ARM64
Toolset Selection¶
The v142 toolset that comes with Visual Studio 16 2019 is selected by
default. The CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET option may be set, perhaps
via the cmake(1) -T option, to specify another toolset.
For each toolset that comes with this version of Visual Studio, there are
variants that are themselves compiled for 32-bit (x86) and
64-bit (x64) hosts (independent of the architecture they target).
By default this generator uses the 64-bit variant on x64 hosts and
the 32-bit variant otherwise.
One may explicitly request use of either the 32-bit or 64-bit host tools
by adding either host=x86 or host=x64 to the toolset specification.
See the CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET variable for details.